About the day » Friday June 1, 2001Calender converter

• Melle Alexander Zwerver, Usquert
• Daan Fracesco Martinus Pelkmans, Gilze

• Antje Wuite (83), Drachten, Smallingerland, Friesland, Nederland
• Cecile Jean Vietor (84)
• Berendina Adriana Bakker (83)
• Aaltje Rijkeboer (79), Uithuizermeeden, Groningen, Nederland
• Bertus de Ruiter (80), Arnhem
• Antje Kreeft (59)
• Barbara Hynes (82)
• Cor Groenendijk (77)
• Alfonsa Gerarda Neesman (80), Alphen aan de Rijn
• Anthony Abraham Gijsbert Woltering (83), Utrecht

• 1990 » Carlota Ciganda, Spanish golfer
• 1990 » Kennie Chopart, Danish footballer
• 1990 » Martin Pembleton, English footballer
• 1990 » Miller Bolaños, Ecuadoran footballer
• 1991 » Tyrone Roberts, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Sam Anas, American ice hockey player
• 1994 » Kagayaki Taishi, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1996 » Edvinas Gertmonas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1996 » Tom Holland, English actor
• 1999 » Dmitri Aliev, Russian figure skater

• 1996 » Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Tito Puente, American drummer, composer, and producer (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (b. 1920)
• 2001 » notable victims of the Nepalese royal massacre
• 2002 » Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
• 2004 » William Manchester, American historian and author (b. 1922)
• 2005 » George Mikan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2005 » Hilda Crosby Standish, American physician (b. 1902)
• 2006 » Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)

1. Thomas
2. Lucas
3. Robin
4. Jan
5. Daan
6. Lars
7. Max
8. Bram
9. Tim
10. Ruben
11. Jasper
12. Thijs
13. Jacob
14. Niels
15. Sander
16. Stijn

1. Emma
2. Britt
3. Femke
4. Julia
5. Sophie
6. Ilse
7. Amber
8. Sanne
9. Anna
10. Laura
11. Lisa
12. Fleur
13. Charlotte
14. Anne
15. Maria
16. Anastasia

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.0 million citizens.
• January 16 » US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
• July 21 » At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
• September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
• October 1 » Militants attack the state legislature building in Kashmir, killing 38.
• October 8 » A twin engine Cessna and a Scandinavian Airlines System jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy, killing 118 people.
• December 22 » Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

The temperature on June 1, 2001 was between 7.7 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.